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I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

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In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

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Make the important interesting.

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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

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I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

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I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

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Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

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When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.

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I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 2nd, 1949

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